I am a life long learner by nature. My husband and I found out about Life Center when my church offered a marriage conference where the Life Center staff were the keynote speakers at our retreat in the winter of 2024. I was amazed at the teaching and wanted to learn more. I took the Advanced Ministry Training (AMT) levels 1&2 recently.
I am Christian for over half my life, a first born with tendencies towards rule following, control grabbing, have it all together looking, strive for perfection and heavy on the performance oh did I mention prideful type personality, sprinkled with an earners mindset and law based approach to my life.
Doing church work for many years; exhausted, burnt out, fearful of mistakes, people pleasing is tough to hold when you feel like you have to work harder for accolades, to be seen and all put together. I never knew there was another way, I just thought of myself as a sinner who needed to work for her ticket to Heaven, hoping God’s goodness and grace was real so I would not be punished, and He wouldn’t be disappointed in me because I thought my behavior dictated His love or lack there of, His approval or disapproval and His affection for me or repulsion towards me.
Life Center’s curriculum is a comprehensive Scriputure based approach to learning about an exchanged life experience and encountering experiences with God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son in the Holy Spirit. I was not prepared for the inner workings of wreckage and healing that would transpire and transform my life in this classroom experience over an eight month period of time.
My identity in Christ was made clear and known in a whole new light. What followed was an understanding that my mind is the source switch from which everything flows and setting my mind on Christ and resting in Him brought a freedom like I have never experienced. The overflow to this was my law-based thinking melted into a simpler faith based trust in who Christ is recognizing the lies I tell myself and the flesh patterns I tend towards when feeling poorly about myself. My behavior doesn’t determine His loving affection for me, I already have it! Exchanging intrusive thoughts for God’s Truths about Who I am and in Whom I belong. This sifting led to shifting my mindset not to live from my trauma but my position in Christ.
These courses, the teaching and my classmates along with the Holy Spirit helped me to see God wasn’t asking me to be everything to everyone but He’s asking me to let Him be everything for me. The Father does not ask for my perfect performance but rather my honest surrender, He’s not grading me…He’s holding me.
Thank you seems to small and this post not adequate enough to truly say how much Life Center has helped shape my newly exchanged life learning to live from Christ.
— Amy
Life Center invites you and your spouse to the NEW Marriage Makeover Seminar coming up Saturday, MAY 16, 2026. Click the graphic for more information.
